Like always, Hanataro hopped through the door on one foot, trying to tie his left shoe, and held a pencil in his mouth. He wouldn`t be late this time. Today was too important, which was why an even brighter smile had stained his face as he ran through the hallway, screaming apologies left and right. He stood in front of the classroom door, took a deep breath and walked in. Only moments later did the final bell ring. Today was defiantly going to be great, he told himself.
However, through the obnoxiously loud bell, he didn`t hear the slutty teacher`s announcement. She just laid on her desk with her red, low cut shirt and black jacket unbuttoned all the way, and smirked seductively as the guys…and some of the girls….handed in a slip of paper.
"….oh, that`s what I forgot!" Hanataro threw the bag from his shoulder onto a nearby desk (he was too excited to care who was sitting there) and started digging through it. A few people stared in disgust as he tore old papers, funny looking bottles, and candy wrappers out of it and threw them on the floor. Luckily, no one was able to see the soul candy at the bottom! Finally, he had found his permission slip, even though it had some weird orange stuff on the edges. He didn`t even want to find out what it was.
"Thanks, cutie!~ " She winked as she took his paper. Hanataro slowly inched away. It was probably take weeks to get that creepy image out of his head. He had never liked girls too much, but that one was especially hard for him to deal with. Thankfully, she wasn`t going to be with the class today, because this was the day of his first school fieldtrip! Luckily, she wasn`t one of the chaperones today. She was probably going to stay behind and try to get laid by principal guy-who-looks-like-a-circus-performer-man.
Nothing was going to put Hanataro down today. It would be perfect! He would spend an entire day with his friends, other than in school (and perhaps alone time with Ishida, if the fates would allow it?) and they were going to a huge biome –themed zoo-type place. He was excited to see the beauty of different types of land and environments. Plus, any place with cute, fluffy animals is the right one for Hana to be!
"You look….sparkly today. What gives?" Ichigo asked in his usual, ignorant tone.
"Aren`t you EXCITED?! Really, is it only me? I can`t wait! Today is going to be great, I know it!" Hana was practically bouncing off the wall, which made it harder to stop Orihime from dancing along with him.
"It`s good to think positive! I try to wake up every morning and tell myself that, and it usually works too! "
"Dear god, someone stop her before one of her "instant sugar rushes" kick in…" Hanataro froze as he watched Uryuu push his glasses up. His heart was beating fast in his chest, but this time he refused to stop smiling.
"Aw, come on! Smile a little!" Hana giggled.
"Yeah, Uryuu! It`s a great, new day! Show us some teeth! Birds are singing, and…." Orihime struggled to find more cute sounding things.
"The sun is shining…." Hana continued.
"And the flowers are dancing!"
"The Earth says hello! Oh….a-and so do I. Good Morning, Uryuu!" Uryuu couldn`t hold back a small smile as he tried hard not to laugh. Those two were adorably strange on their own, though he would never admit it. Putting them together just made things even stranger than they normally are for him. Not that he was complaining. He wouldn`t mind hearing something bright and cheery every once in a while. He wasn`t ALL deep, dark and depressing.
"Wow, you too are…something else." Uryuu couldn`t help but laugh a little bit. No matter how great things would get, that sound had defiantly made Hanataro`s entire day. That was the first time he had ever made Uryuu laugh in a way that didn`t involve getting hurt.
"So…this is a bus….I`m really glad that we didn`t have to walk." Hanataro thought as he stared out the window. Orihime was sitting next to him talking to a few of her girl friends about….girly things. He didn`t care to listen, even though he would probably be able to keep up with their conversations better than most other guys. Is that sad?
"Haaaanaaa! Why are you so quiet?! You were dancing and smiling this morning!" Orihime whined.
"I-I`m sorry, Orihime. I didn`t want to bother you…and I was just thinking that we`re lucky that we don`t have to walk to this place."
"Wow, you`re right! We are pretty lucky, huh? It`s a good thing we get to ride in a bus because otherwise, we would get lost or our legs would fall off…and we need our legs. What if we had wings or something or like that?! Then, we could just fly there! That would be so cool!"
"Look Orihime, I know it`s your dream to fly…" tatsuki started. "…but it`s just not possible for humans to sprout wings."
"Tatsuki, you know that my dream is to go to the future and be transformed into a robot with laser-beam eyeballs…but have you ever heard of evolution?! Who knows? Humans could mate with birds one day and then have babies with WINGS! Then, we could all fly around!"
"Even if that happened, you were already born, so you wouldn`t get wings…."
"….but my babies would."
"So, you plan to have sex with a bird so your kids could fly…?"
"EWW! NOOO! But I wouldn`t mind being with a half-bird man…."
"….wow….I give up on you."
Hana laughed. Maybe it wasn`t bad being able to understand girls, especially at a time like this. The window was getting boring to look through anyway. Even with the idiots in the back throwing pencils and crumbled papers around, Hanataro was actually enjoying himself. At least until a half-filled water bottle flew past him and spilled on the girls. They screamed, and Tatuski could have killed the guy right then and there.
"Direct hit!" A bigger guy laughed and high-fived his two friends. Hanataro remembered him instantly. It was the same guys that had ganged up on him on his first day of school. However, this was the first time he had a good look at him. This kid was tall, well-toned, had short, jet black hair and had an evil look in his eyes. For once, Hanataro honestly could have killed him.
"Nice shot!" screamed a short, blond man with scars on his face and bandages on his hands.
"If only there were wearing those white school uniform shirts!" added the fat kid who was purposely bald and had a slithering snake tattooed on his left arm.
"Jerks! Who do you think you are, huh?! I`ll rip that smirk right off your face! Get up here, you cowards!" Tatuski struggled to release herself from the three or four girls holding her back. The implied leader just laughed.
It was then that Hanataro looked at his hands and noticed that the water bottle was laying right in his lap. He did not hesitate to turn around and whip it right at the leader, hitting him right in the head. The whole bus was silent, until preppy people started screaming "ooooh". Hana turned around in his seat and hid himself. How did he do that?!
"Who did that?!"
"Hanataro!"
"What?! Really?!"
"Woah, what a jerk…"
"He`s gonna get it…."
His friends started to clap and cheer. Ichigo patted his shoulder, Uryuu smiled, Orihime gave him a hug, and tatsuki sent him a high-five/ knuckle touch. Hana didn`t know if he was supposed to be proud or ashamed. He still felt those dark eyes from the back of the bus burning a hole through him. Uryyu turned around in his seat.
"I`m really shocked, Hanataro. I didn`t think you had it in you."
"U-um it was nothing really. Probably just an Adrenaline rush….I don`t care what people do to me but… not someone I care about, ya know?"
"Yeah….I know what you mean." Uryuu almost turned back around, but he didn`t want to hold back. Not this time. "I…I`m proud of you, Hana."
"Y-y-you`re…r-really?" Hanataro blushed. He had never expected Uryuu to say something like that….or call him by the cute nickname he was given! Uryuu wasn`t being formal with him. In fact, he said that like they were friends. Did that mean that they were really friends now?
"I am. It`s about time you started to defend yourself…but it`s even better than you did it for someone else. That`s truly admirable."
Hanataro lost all control (and some of the dignity he had just gained) when he started to blush. Sometimes, he wondered why he acted like a love-struck schoolgirl…besides the fact that he was. Minus the girl part.
"Oh, It`s nothing to be admired for, really. I was pretty much just recycling with his face! Ha ha ha…."
"I don`t give out compliments too often...just accept it." Uryuu turned back in his seat and looked out the window. Hana wondered if he had upset him or if he just didn`t want to hear negativity. Either way, his head was spinning. He had never loved the sweet and sour taste of Adrenaline before.
He….he called me Hana. And he`s proud of me….I don`t think this can get any better….
He soon forgot about the evil eyes that continued to glare at him from the back of the bus. His feelings of bliss would only be temporary.
Author`s note: There are a LOT of things that I need to say here….I am EXTREMLY sorry for the long wait! I have had trouble getting a good idea and I have been really busy and stressed. But I finally got this chapter up! And I promise, no matter what, I shall not quit until this story is finished! :) Oh, and I`m half sorry about this xD This part is nothing like what I had in mind, but I needed something to get to the good part :P I can`t wait to write it!
I love how I kept putting personal things in this chapter! I actually do say "the earth smiles for you…and so do I" to my friends in the morning. The "show me some teeth" thing is an inside joke, although it seemed like a simple comment. And the water bottle thing actually happened to me a month ago! Some idiots were throwing pencils and a not completely empty water bottle and it hit me and my two friends. It landed on my lap so I whipped it back and hit one of them in the head! The preps FREAKED OUT and it was HILARIOUS! And it is the only time I will allow a freshman to get away with calling me a "bitchy, slutty-ass whore"…since I was able to tell him to go f***k himself….with a smile! Lol
Side note: does ANYONE remember the slutty teacher lady, or was that from a completely different anime?! I just remember seeing a lady lying on a desk screaming something at her students that sounded something like "oh yes, come and play teacher! Oh, oh yes!" Yeah, that was awkward for me to even type…
There is one last thing I have to say. I probably should have mentioned this before this even started. I was looking at some old reviews and realized that a lot of people keep saying that Hanataro and Ishida are out of character….that is the point. I did that on purpose, but I try not to take it too far. I wanted to make Ishida come out of his cold, hard shell a little. I also wanted Hanataro to be a little ambitious, and show that teenage hormones are hard…especially when he had just started attending school. Those things area hard to deal with separately, especially with gaining and losing hope with love. So I tried my best to portray that. Apparently, it`s not working. Please tell me if I am doing this right!!!
Part 1 has ended and part 2 will be so much more intense, I promise!!! And It will be posted very, very soon!
